50 Fun Facts About The Pendragon Adventure

In The Never War, which real disaster must Bobby Pendragon let happen so the Nazis lose World War II?

The Hindenburg fire has to go ahead: a computer in the far future shows that saving the airship would hand the Nazis the first atomic bomb.

The Pendragon Adventure's author co-created which Nickelodeon horror anthology of campfire tales?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? was filmed mostly in Montreal, and its co-creator produced all 91 episodes years ahead of writing Bobby's story.

In The Pendragon Adventure, what are the tunnels behind a carved star that carry Travelers between territories called?

Flumes wake when a Traveler calls out a destination: the rock walls turn to clear crystal and a jumble of musical notes fills the tunnel.

Saint Dane, the shapeshifting villain of The Pendragon Adventure, often makes his escape as which bird?

A raven is one of his regular shapes, along with a cloud of smoke, while his usual human form is tall with icy blue eyes and long grey hair.

In the Pendragon book The Reality Bug, which virtual-reality system has lured people out of real life?

Lifelight fills giant pyramids with jump simulators, where phaders run the fantasies and vedders care for the bodies of the people inside.

Which uncle of Bobby Pendragon, a veteran Traveler, takes him from home on the night of a big game?

Press Tilton is the lead Traveler and starts Bobby's training, though he later admits that the two of them are not blood relatives at all.

In The Pendragon Adventure, which word names everything that exists: every time, place, person and territory?

Halla is the whole of existence, and Saint Dane means to tear it apart so that he can rebuild it to his own design.

On Eelong in The Pendragon Adventure, which upright-walking cats rule the treetops and keep humans as pets?

Klees treat humans as pets and livestock, and theirs is the only non-human species to supply a Traveler.

Which territory with three suns is the first that Bobby Pendragon visits after leaving Second Earth?

Denduron is a medieval world where the Milago mine for their Bedoowan rulers, and Bobby's first ride there is a sled run off a mountain.

In The Pendragon Adventure, what are the helpers called who keep a Traveler's journals safe on the home territory?

Acolytes also leave local clothing and supplies where a Traveler arrives, so that the newcomer can blend in straight away.

Which American writer and television producer created Bobby Pendragon and wrote all ten books of his adventure?

D. J. MacHale wrote the ten books himself but handed the three prequels to other writers, Carla Jablonski and Walter Sorrells.

Which book opens The Pendragon Adventure, pitting the Milago miners against their Bedoowan rulers?

The Merchant of Death features a Milago trader, Figgis, who secretly sells explosives to his own people and is not what he seems.

Bobby Pendragon is pulled away from home just as he is due to star in a state semi-final in which sport?

Basketball comes back in The Reality Bug, where Bobby's perfect fantasy includes starring in a game for his hometown high school team.

In The Pendragon Adventure, which yellow-eyed beasts does Saint Dane post as guards wherever the Travelers arrive?

Quigs take a different shape on each territory: snakes on Zadaa, swarming bees on Ibara and robotic spiders on Quillan.

Which Pendragon territory is covered entirely by ocean, so that its people live on huge floating habitats?

Cloral's habitats each have a job, such as farming or manufacturing, and sharks attack Bobby as he swims out of the cavern where he arrives.

Which warrior Traveler, the daughter of Osa, starts The Pendragon Adventure openly scornful of Bobby?

Loor comes from the desert territory of Zadaa and warms to Bobby only once he proves himself; she later helps train him to fight.

Which First Earth Traveler in The Pendragon Adventure is bell captain of a grand Manhattan hotel in 1937?

Gunny got the nickname because he simply could not fire a gun, however hard he tried.

Which young aquaneer saves Bobby Pendragon from a shark attack and then learns that he is a Traveler too?

Vo Spader inherits the role from his father, who is found dead aboard a runaway habitat whose people had eaten poisoned crops.

Which science-minded best friend of Bobby Pendragon invents the shape-changing Forge with former bully Andy Mitchell?

Mark Dimond is being used: Andy Mitchell is Saint Dane in disguise, and Forge technology ends up inside the villain's robot soldiers.

In The Pendragon Adventure, which small object opens into a tiny portal to deliver Bobby's journals to his friends?

A ring made of the same stone as the travel tunnels does the job: name a territory and it grows into a miniature tunnel for the pages.

Bobby Pendragon grows up in which Connecticut suburb, within commuting reach of New York City?

Stony Brook is an invention of the author, who grew up in the real Connecticut town of Greenwich.

Which humanoid robots police Quillan in The Pendragon Adventure and later fill the ranks of Saint Dane's armies?

Dados start out as the security force of Quillan's ruling corporation, and Saint Dane later mass-produces them on Third Earth.

Which unstable explosive, dug from the mines of the Milago, nearly destroys two tribes in the first Pendragon book?

Tak returns to haunt the series: when Bobby digs it up again to fight an invading army, he dooms the very territory he had first saved.

On which Pendragon territory does Saint Dane claim his first victory, as its people flock back to their fantasies?

Veelox is lost at the end of The Reality Bug, when the villain, posing as a program director, has the fantasy machine switched back on.

The abandoned subway station where Bobby Pendragon first leaves Second Earth is in which New York City borough?

The Bronx station hides a door carved with a star, and the first thing Bobby does behind it is shout the name of another world.

On Eelong in the Pendragon series, what name is given to the humans who are kept as pets and livestock?

Gars tend to be smaller than Earth's humans and most are denied any schooling, though a hidden settlement of free ones shows how capable they are.

In the final Pendragon book, the Travelers learn they are spirits created by which force of positive energy?

Solara is fed by the spirit of everyone who dies, and Saint Dane's victories split it in two, weakening the good half and feeding its opposite.

Which Traveler from Quillan betrays the others in The Pendragon Adventure by defecting to Saint Dane's side?

Nevva Winter exposes the rebels' secret archive to the robot police, crushing the uprising that Bobby had just inspired on Quillan.

Which Bedoowan knight is secretly a Traveler and later helps train Bobby Pendragon as a warrior on Zadaa?

Alder is clumsy for a knight but loyal to the end: he is killed in the ninth book while trying to stop a massacre of protesters in New York.

In the second Pendragon book, which legendary sunken city holds the cure for an ocean world's poisoned crops?

Faar collapses under Saint Dane's attack, then rises to the surface when the Travelers press a control that a dying council elder could not reach.

Which Pendragon-series cult, led on Second Earth by Alexander Naymeer, holds that an elite few should rule all others?

Ravinia rises as Saint Dane overruns Second Earth, a win that reverses every earlier Traveler victory.

In the first Pendragon book, which precious stone must the Milago mine every day to satisfy the Bedoowan queen?

Glaze is weighed against a life: when the day's haul falls short of the queen's demand, a Milago is pushed into an abandoned mine shaft.

Which pale, tunnel-dwelling tribe of Zadaa is accused of starving the Batu of water in the Pendragon series?

The Rokador had been all but wiped out by a virus, which let Saint Dane talk the survivors into a plan to drown their neighbours.

On the ocean territory of the Pendragon series, which jet-ski-like craft do aquaneers ride between habitats?

A skimmer saves Bobby far from its home waters in the eighth book, when he escapes on one that Saint Dane had carried across territories.

Which item stolen from Bobby Pendragon's backpack supplies the battery and switch for the Milago bomb?

A flashlight brought from home completes the weapon, which is why Travelers are warned never to carry objects from one territory to another.

The Jakills, rebel teenagers of Ibara in the Pendragon series, take their name from which earlier Traveler?

Aja Killian left a record behind on the same planet three centuries earlier, and her name survived on the island in garbled form.

What is the name of Bobby Pendragon's golden retriever, who greets him in a perfect fantasy in The Reality Bug?

Marley belongs to the home life that vanishes: Bobby returns from his first mission to find his house and family gone without a trace.

What does Saint Dane call the event in The Pendragon Adventure when every territory's turning point strikes at once?

The Convergence is his long game: with the turning points colliding, chaos on one territory can spill across all the others.

In the Pendragon book The Quillan Games, which giant corporation rules the dreary city of Rune?

Blok owns everything on Quillan, and people gamble on its lethal games in the hope of a better life, staking jobs and even families.

In 2008 the first Pendragon book was adapted into which format, a year ahead of the series finale?

A graphic novel version drawn by Carla Speed McNeil, the cartoonist behind the comic Finder, went on sale the same day as the ninth book.

Which dismissive word does Saint Dane use for the Travelers in The Pendragon Adventure, hinting at their true nature?

Illusions turns out to be close to the truth: the final book reveals that the Travelers are guardian spirits in human shape, not people.

Which Pendragon book, set on the island of Ibara, was first announced as Pendragon the Great?

The Pilgrims of Rayne was announced as the new title in October 2006, and the book followed in May 2007.

Which later horror trilogy by the Pendragon author ends by tying its afterlife into the world of the Travelers?

Morpheus Road reveals in its last book, The Blood, that its mysterious Watchers are the Travelers from Bobby's story.

Which voice actor, the American voice of Bob the Builder, narrated the Pendragon audiobooks?

William Dufris won praise from Publishers Weekly for the upbeat delivery and believable teenage rhythm he gave Bobby's journals.

Which gluttonous queen of the Bedoowan, counselled by Saint Dane in disguise, rules in the first Pendragon book?

Kagan surprises Bobby, who assumes from the name that the Bedoowan ruler is a man, and she enjoys watching prisoners face wild beasts in her arena.

In the second Pendragon book, which giant farming barge is rammed by a runaway habitat full of poisoned people?

Grallion grows the food for its ocean world, which is why raiders then hold it to ransom for ten barges of cargo.

In The Quillan Games, Bobby Pendragon competes as a Challenger named for which colour?

Red is Bobby's colour in the Grand X tournament, where a rival known as Challenger Green turns out to be Saint Dane.

Under which name does Saint Dane pose as chief adviser to the Bedoowan queen in the first Pendragon book?

Mallos is only half the trick: Saint Dane also plays a Milago trader, so that he can push both tribes towards war at the same time.

Which inventor in the Pendragon book The Reality Bug hides in a fantasy of his own, inside the rotating Barbican?

Dr. Zetlin holds the origin code that can purge the corrupted program, so Bobby has to enter the recluse's private fantasy to ask for it.

In the ninth Pendragon book, 70,000 protesters vanish into a giant portal created at which New York venue?

Yankee Stadium is a trap: the rally's organiser is the traitor Traveler in disguise, who gathered the crowd there to be swallowed.